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. >> scott's beat is business and technology. just over a week ago he covered the first robotics competition in san jose. it's where some of the best and brightest high schoolers show off what they can really do. >> a lot of them come from schools you'd expect but one rookie team came out of nowhere and you won't believe where they are headed next. our gavin thomas picks up the story and talks about our bay area proud series. >> reporter: when mikayla brant walked into apollo high school on her first ever day as a teacher, she said she had one goal, not get eaten alive. apollo is a continuation school, the place for students who weren't doing well or going at all to their regular high school. the kids though, mikayla says, surprised her and together they're surprising a lot of others. their accomplishment is tonight's "bay area proud." >> reporter: the very first, first robotics competition was held more than 20 years ago, which means a lot of the teams at this month's regional in san jose have lots of experience. >> the robot in
. >> scott's beat is business and technology. just over a week ago he covered the first robotics competition in san jose. it's where some of the best and brightest high schoolers show off what they can really do. >> a lot of them come from schools you'd expect but one rookie team came out of nowhere and you won't believe where they are headed next. our gavin thomas picks up the story and talks about our bay area proud series. >> reporter: when mikayla brant walked into apollo...
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. >>> american airlines telling parpgs to expect lingering delays as they recover from a massive technology meltdown. tens of thousands of passengers were stranded yesterday as american and american eagle were forced to cancel 970 flights and delay 1,000 more. late last night, airline ceo and chairman took to youtube to issue a mea culpa. they say it will run at near normal operation today and is working to accommodate the flyers that were affected by the outage. >>> first time since the newtown school massacre, lawmakers are voting on gun control. growing number of republicans and moderate democrats oppose this idea. a press poll finds less than half of americans actually favor the bill. that's down nearly 10% since the days following the newtown school massacre back in december. the senate will also vote on eight other amendments to democratic gun control bill. >>> 4:48. new this morning, thousands of people, including diagram e ini gather to honor briton's former prime minister, margaret thatcher. the capital came to a stand still as lady thatcher's coffin, draped in a union flag, follow
. >>> american airlines telling parpgs to expect lingering delays as they recover from a massive technology meltdown. tens of thousands of passengers were stranded yesterday as american and american eagle were forced to cancel 970 flights and delay 1,000 more. late last night, airline ceo and chairman took to youtube to issue a mea culpa. they say it will run at near normal operation today and is working to accommodate the flyers that were affected by the outage. >>> first...
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technology has now taken care of that. the boston marathon bombing. first responders rely on their radios in emergencies but now anyone can get access to that information. web sites let you listen in on police fire and ems radio transitions from around the world. >> these web sites take their place. without having to learn about scanning and frequencies and all this technology go to a web site and just pick the agency in your area click and listen. it's kind of cool. >> reporter: that's just one source of unfiltered information that can keep you informationed in an emergency. live traffic cams are operating 24/7 on every major roadway. cal-tran provides a birds eye view and for anyone ever worried about a loved ones where abouts. google and red cross provide up to the minute reports. you search a name to find out if someone you know is accounted for and post information saying you're okay. it's a good idea to keep a list of these sites. we put links and details on our web site. keep in mind you can't always rely on the accuracy of the information. it'
technology has now taken care of that. the boston marathon bombing. first responders rely on their radios in emergencies but now anyone can get access to that information. web sites let you listen in on police fire and ems radio transitions from around the world. >> these web sites take their place. without having to learn about scanning and frequencies and all this technology go to a web site and just pick the agency in your area click and listen. it's kind of cool. >> reporter:...
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our country needs more college grads to help fill all the open technology jobs. to help meet that need, here at devry university, we're offering 4 million dollars in tech scholarships for qualified new students. learn more at devry.edu. . >>> good morning. middle of the week, pam, i am dave clark, it is 5:30. steve, remember i kept saying, it would be really nice if it was not so windy. >> it has been a little windy, no doubt, pam and dave and with that we get some wide ranging lows from 40s and 50s, 60s and kind of a blustery day. here is sal. >>> chp thinks it was offender bener behind it. northbound 880, a transit bus had at least one lane and they are waiting for a special vehicle to come and get this bus out of the way and meanwhile the traffic is backing up big time, this is a look at 280 traffic, let's go back to the desk. >>> overnight, a woman in hayward was hit by a bullet shot while sleeping at home. she was rushed to the hospital where she underwent emergency surgery. tara moriarty is at the victim's home right now and tara, remnants of it, you can st
our country needs more college grads to help fill all the open technology jobs. to help meet that need, here at devry university, we're offering 4 million dollars in tech scholarships for qualified new students. learn more at devry.edu. . >>> good morning. middle of the week, pam, i am dave clark, it is 5:30. steve, remember i kept saying, it would be really nice if it was not so windy. >> it has been a little windy, no doubt, pam and dave and with that we get some wide ranging...
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it will introduce new fire safety technologies. and improve the level of operating redundancy. this will be on all 24 of their ships as this, they say will expand the availability of postal services for the comfort of guest. this is if the ship was power. they had bad publicity what they had those accidents when the power was out and customers were left with a pretty bad vacation. there are hoping this will improve again and they will get good princely. policy. >> let us take a live look at the reopening of the exploratoryium . >> located now at pier 15 where they are during the ceremony to kick it off. we will be right back. >> that is it for this morning. a lot of new developments happening in the wake of the bombings of the marathon in boston. stay tuned for the 24/7 news channel for the latest. as was our web site kron4.com , facebook and twitter pages as an aberration become available. >> dr.
it will introduce new fire safety technologies. and improve the level of operating redundancy. this will be on all 24 of their ships as this, they say will expand the availability of postal services for the comfort of guest. this is if the ship was power. they had bad publicity what they had those accidents when the power was out and customers were left with a pretty bad vacation. there are hoping this will improve again and they will get good princely. policy. >> let us take a live look...
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. >> american airlines is promising to run a normal operations today after worldwide technology meltdown left thousand passengers stranded yesterday. kron fours mike pelton is live from sfo with an update this morning. >> take a look at some of the video you can see long lines and a lot of canceled flights. a computer failure forced the airline to ground all flights frosfor several hours. the problem was fixed yesterday afternoon because they big back up and passengers unhappy. >> at this point i am waiting and i can't to the counter to find out what can be done. they said we're working on--i came to the counter >> everyone is just dealing with it. it is late. i cannot fight it. i cannot do anything about it. >> what did later cancelled? >> it was delayed. probably another for five hours. >> we do have calls into the airport to the manager they will be able to tell us the status of the american airline flights at sfo. when we get the update will pass along. i can tell you by walking to the terminal looking at the flight boards it appears that a lot of the american airline flights are on
. >> american airlines is promising to run a normal operations today after worldwide technology meltdown left thousand passengers stranded yesterday. kron fours mike pelton is live from sfo with an update this morning. >> take a look at some of the video you can see long lines and a lot of canceled flights. a computer failure forced the airline to ground all flights frosfor several hours. the problem was fixed yesterday afternoon because they big back up and passengers unhappy....
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washington post facebook worked hard to get a provision in the reform bill that will be helpful to technology companies. the proposed new rules would allow facebook and other high- tech companies to avoid a requirement that they make a good faith effort to recruit americans for jobs before hiring foreign workers. the high-tech industry has long complained about a shortage of qualified engineers and other high-skilled workers here in the u.s. >>> america is footing most of the bill when it comes to overseas military bases. the senate armed services committee has found the u.s. is paying $10 billion a year to operate bases in countries including germany, japan and south korea. the report outlines problems in getting compensations from other countries and the pentagon may close some bases to save money. >>> the distinguished warfare medal was approved by leon panetta, and some lawmakers were concerned that the medal would be placed above those for battlefield valor. chuck hagel nixed the medal in favor of in addition to existing medals. >>> he's trying to rebuild a tainted political career. but
washington post facebook worked hard to get a provision in the reform bill that will be helpful to technology companies. the proposed new rules would allow facebook and other high- tech companies to avoid a requirement that they make a good faith effort to recruit americans for jobs before hiring foreign workers. the high-tech industry has long complained about a shortage of qualified engineers and other high-skilled workers here in the u.s. >>> america is footing most of the bill when...